The weather gods smiled upon us as the overcast sky cleared and a magnificent evening greeted us as we embarked upon one of our more vigorous and demanding photowalks in Alton Barnes. An intrepid group met at the roadside car park before scaling Knap Hill and taking in the magnificent views it afforded over the rolling Wiltshire countryside, bathed in golden sunlight. With hopefully some pleasing images captured, we returned to the car park and tackled Walkers Hill and Adams Grave, the most dramatically located Neolithic long barrow in Wiltshire and the site of battles in 592 and 715.

The area surrounding Walker’s Hill is pitted with barrows and ditches of many sizes and shapes and a grazing area for a herd of cows searching for green vegetation in the sun scorched fields.  We never made it on foot to the Alton Barnes white horse as our previous exertions had created a thirst that we urgently needed to satisfy by a visit to The Barge Inn, by the Kennet & Avon canal in Honey Street and the perfect way to conclude our evenings photowalk.